Salad and Go is shuttering all of its remaining locations in Texas and Oklahoma, along with a commissary facility, and moving its headquarters back to Arizona, the company confirmed Wednesday.
The planned closures include 25 of the drive-thru restaurant locations in Texas and seven in Oklahoma. The move comes just months after the quick-service chain closed 41 units—or more than a quarter of its restaurants—in September, also in Texas and Oklahoma.
After the 32 closures in the latest wave, which is expected to impact about 600 jobs, Salad and Go will have 70 units remaining in Arizona and Nevada, served by one central kitchen.
That’s roughly half of the 146 units the chain had at the end of 2024, a year of 7% unit growth for Salad and Go, and sales growth of 24% to nearly $256 million, according to data from Restaurant Business sister-brand Technomic.
Mike Tattersfield, who joined the chain as CEO in April 2025, told the Phoenix Business Journal that Salad and Go’s aggressive growth in recent years was based on a flawed business plan. But he remained optimistic that a return to the brand’s roots in Arizona would reinvigorate the concept.
In a statement Wednesday, Tattersfield said the decision to exit the Texas and Oklahoma markets would allow the company to consolidate operations at the Phoenix headquarters and to "focus on what matters most: food quality, menu innovation, guest experience and building for long-term growth."
Tattersfield expressed gratitude for the team members in Texas and Oklahoma "for the care they brought every day." He also said the company is not closing any locations in Arizona or Nevada, saying the chain would "continue to serve our passionate fans as we have for over a decade and invest more deeply in our home market.
"This strategic focus positions us to strengthen our brand and ultimately grow again when the time is right," Tattersfield added.
Salad and Go was co-founded in Gilbert, Arizona, in 2013 by Tony Christofellis, who built the concept around a model of small, mostly seating-free drive-thru outlets served by central kitchens designed to support hundreds of units. The goal was to make freshly prepared, healthful salads as affordable and convenient as fast food.
Christofellis sold the concept to private-equity firm Volt Investment Holdings in 2021. Volt moved the headquarters to Texas and recruited former Wingstop CEO Charlie Morrison the following year to lead an aggressive growth push.
Morrison, however, left the chain in 2024 after disagreements emerged between him and the board on the strategy for the brand. In early 2025, the chain also was the subject of a CBS News investigation alleging that undercooked chicken was being served at Texas locations in late 2024.
Tattersfield, the former CEO of Krispy Kreme, took the helm of Salad and Go in April 2025, and also became a minority investor.
At the time, Tattersfield said Salad and Go was preparing for growth, but at a less-aggressive pace.
With the move back to Arizona, Salad and Go’s corporate team will return to a former office that can hold about 25 people, Tattersfield told the Business Journal. The relocations will happen over the next 18 to 24 months, and eventually the company will open a larger office there.
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